"Expanding knowledge and access to
emergency contraception in Europe"
"Expanding knowledge and access to emergency contraception in Europe"
May 2021. Findings from ECEC’s and You Act’s participatory survey on emergency contraception access through community pharmacies in Europe, were presented on a poster at the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESCRH) virtual seminar held on May 7 and 8, 2021.
We thank the ESCRH colleagues for this opportunity to share our work.
Despite the fact that the European Commission recently ruled that ulipristal acetate (UPA) EC pills could be accessible directly from pharmacies without the need for a prescription, the Hungarian State Secretariat for Health has indicated that all EC pills will remain prescription-only. The Secretariat claims to base this decision out of patient safety concerns, and…
January 2022. A report published on newtral.es on December 2021 shows the challenges of working in “conscious objector pharmacies”. In these pharmacies the individual right to object dispensing EC pills on conscientious grounds, is extended to the entire team in the shop, despite being an individual right: https://www.newtral.es/farmacias-objetoras-de-conciencia-pildora-del-dia-despues/20211219/. Testimonies of individuals who, in Spanish pharmacies,…
WHO has released new guidelines on priority actions needed to ensure that different human rights dimensions are systematically and clearly integrated into the provision of contraceptive information and services. Regarding EC, the guidelines recommend that EC be included within the essential medicine supply chain; that special efforts be made to provide comprehensive EC information and…
April 14, 2020. The World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes Contraception/Family planning and COVID-19, a Questions and Answers (Q&A) document that provides short and to the point responses regarding contraception accessibility and use in the current times. Use of emergency contraception (EC), and other self-care methods, is proposed if access to regular methods is disrupted. The…
In January 2015 the European Commission issued an implementing decision, amending the marketing authorisation granted in 2009 for UPA ECPs. Sine then, the decision has started to be implemented. In most European Union countries the decision is being followed and UPA ECPs are available directly in the pharmacies or will be very soon. At the…
A study by Charles Picavet, Ineke van der Vlugt, and Ciel Wijsen entitled “Intention to use emergency contraceptive pills and the role of knowledge in a Dutch national sample” was recently published in the The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. The study examined whether increased knowledge of ECPs among Dutch women increased their intention…
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